Rick Kilgore’s Chinese Owl pigeons are fluffed and ready for Saturday’s show. GREENFIELD — They’re not owls and they’re not Chinese, but Rick Kilgore will have his Chinese Owl pigeons on display at ...

BRIDGEPORT, Neb. (AP) -- To most people, Frank Cahoy's Chinese owls look just like pigeons. They are. Cahoy breeds and shows the variety known as Chinese owls because of their feather formation, which ...

image: This shows striking variation between breeds of domestic pigeons. Left: Old German owl breed with a head crest and short beak. Right: Scandaroon breed with large beak and no crest. Background: ...

Charles Darwin bred pigeons, and used them to learn more about the inheritance of different characteristics. For pigeons, beak size is one of those characteristics. There are 350 pigeon breeds or more ...

The rock pigeon's funky hairdos have been pinned to a single gene mutation that signals head and neck feathers to grow up rather than down in a tamer fashion, report researchers who have just decoded ...

The rock pigeon's funky hairdos have been pinned to a single gene mutation that signals head and neck feathers to grow up rather than down in a tamer fashion, report researchers who have just decoded ...

Photographer Milton Morris captured the fascinating people and pigeons who flocked to the National Pigeon Association’s annual show. Founded in 1920, the group held the event in Myrtle Beach, S.C., ...

Charles Darwin was obsessed with domestic pigeons. He thought they held the secrets of selection in their beaks. Free from the bonds of natural selection, the 350-plus breeds of domestic pigeons have ...

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In the modern world, pigeons serve small purpose. Electrical communications have made carriers, with freak exceptions,obsolete. The lively sport of live-pigeon shooting is now generally illegal. The ...